Beyond the Glass - Softcover

White, Antonia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385271603 ISBN 13: 9780385271608

Publisher: Doubleday, 1981

Synopsis

Returning to her family's repressive household after the annulment of her marriage, Clara Batchelor suffers a nervous breakdown that sends her to a mental hospital

About this title

From the Publisher:

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie ended, she returns to her parents hoping for comfort. But theirs is a strict Catholic home, and its confines form a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, yet when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair, her fragile identity cracks. An extraordinary portrayal of a woman's descent into madness, this novel completes Antonia White's brilliant "May Quartet."

About the Author:

Antonia White was born in 1899 and educated at in London at St. Paul's and RADA. She worked as a journalist and in the Foreign Office, had four novels published and translated over thirty novels from French. She died in Sussex in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0385271603
• ISBN 13: 9780385271608
• Binding: Paperback